3 out of 4 stars
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The book, A Doomsday Killing, by Glenn Ickler, is fiction written in the protagonist’s perspective. It has about 304 pages with a descriptive writing style.
Mitch, a Daily Dispatch news reporter, and his lawyer wife, Martha, are watching news on the television when their attention is drawn to a lady claiming that the second coming of our Lord and Savior, the rapture, would happen on Easter Sunday, two weeks away. She is Sister Rebekah, the leader of The Faithful United for Beatification at the Second Coming of Our Blessed Lord and Savior. Mitch sympathizes with the religion reporter who will be assigned the job of taking up her story because the name of her group is a mouthful. Little does he know that this reporter will be checking in sick, and he will be given the assignment. He shortens this name to The Faithful United. Mitch faces wrath from the group when he reports on their secrets and ends up being called ‘The Blasphemer’ by the members. Mysterious deaths of prophets in this group see Mitch in the middle of solving mysteries that are meant for the Police. He narrowly escapes death in this endeavor.
The protagonist, Mitch, is likeable, and he makes reading this book very interesting with his choice of words and sense of humor. I did not want to put this book down and would have read it in one sitting were it not for the many pages. We get an insight into the life of a news reporter, and how it can be both fun and dangerous. I learned that it was very easy to increase the flock of religious groups by attracting people with the imminence of the rapture and preaching fires of hell.
What I did not like about this book was the use of the name Brother Jonah where it was supposed to be Brother Noah, on page 223. The same happened with the use of MGH instead of MHG that stands for Magnum Herald Group. The author seemed to use these abbreviations interchangeably as they appear in many pages.
I give this book a rating of 3 out of 4 stars because I got confused when the above mentioned names and abbreviations were used erroneously. I found minor errors of omitted words. The formatting was good and the story flowed quite well. I cannot rate it lower because the book was very entertaining.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys comedy. Those who would like to understand what news reporters do would also enjoy it.
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A Doomsday Killing
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